One big reason tomorrow's election could actually matter

What was it Bill Murray's character chanted in Meatballs? It just doesn't matter.

Or rather, it might – but not for the obvious reasons.

Either way, the country will have an authoritarian corporatist warmonger who s#$%^ all over the Constitution for its jefe.

The only question is whether the jefe will be a left-wing socialist authoritarian corporatist warmonger who s#$%^ all over the Constitution – or a right-wing fascist-minded authoritarian corporatist warmonger who s#$%^ over the Constitution.

In that sense, it just doesn't matter.

We will have more wars, more rent-seeking by "connected" big business; more Officer 82nd Airborne, less Andy Griffith. More hassles – less freedom. It just doesn't matter.

The NFC – that is, Republicans – will cheer their team, regardless of its actual performance. Just as the AFC – Democrats – will cheer their team, irrespective of what it does.

The same "liberal" Democrats who have been silent these past going on four years of Obama launching new wars, bombing fresh civilians, drawing up executive kill lists, renewing the "Patriot" act (and enacting the even more egregious National Defense Authorization Act), and pursuing the war on some drugs even more aggressively than the beady-eyed chimp who preceded him will be just as silent for the next four years of similar and worse outrages – so long as it's their guy doing it.

Similarly, the same "conservative" Republicans who are crying about Obama's abuses will forget all about them the moment it's their guy doing the abusing. Hell, they already have. They're urging people to vote for the author of Obamacare to replace the implementor of Obamacare!

Anything's OK when it's your guy doing it. This is the "philosophy" of Republicans and Democrats alike.